Sale 1092 — Outstanding United States Stamps
Sale Date — Thursday-Friday, 19-20 February, 2015
Category — 1870-75 National and Continental Bank Note Co. Issues (Scott 134-179)
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30c Greenish Black, Special Printing (176). Without gum as issued, beautiful deep shade, wide margins all around, scissors-separated as almost always but leaving full perforations on three sides and trace of perforations at bottomEXTREMELY FINE EXAMPLE OF THE 30-CENT 1875 CONTINENTAL SPECIAL PRINTING. ONLY 50 EXAMPLES ARE RECORDED IN OUR CENSUS.
Our recently updated census records for Scott 176 contain 50 copies. Of these, approximately a dozen have perforations on all four sides. Very few of those are well-centered.
Census No. 176-UNC-04. Ex Drucker. With 1989 P.F. certificate
14,500
6,500